Recent Music Stories
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Red, White and Brass an opportunity for young pasifika
Red, White & Brass' is a New Zealand made film due out in cinemas later this week. The Square Eyes Film Foundation is organising free screenings for schools with large Pasifika roles. Audio
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The Sound of Mewsic: Songs about cats
22 Mar 2023First it was chickens, now music correspondent Ian Chapman gets downright catty with his choice of music today - with some classical cats, feline fusion and mouser metal. Ian Chapman is a Senior… Audio
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It's about damn time - Lizzo announces NZ show
22 Mar 2023It's bad bitch o'clock - multi-Grammy award-winning hip-hop and R&B artist Lizzo has announced a New Zealand show date.
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Vinyl records becoming just as popular as CDs
22 Mar 2023Warning... If you're one of the people who threw out your entire record collection back when it looked CDs were the future and now regret it everytime people fawn over Vinyl... this is a story about… Audio
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BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet
21 Mar 2023Jonathan Cohen and his friends from the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra play Brahms' Clarinet Quintet. Audio
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MOZART: Clarinet Quintet
21 Mar 2023Jonathan Cohen and his friends from the APO play Mozart's Clarinet Quintet. Audio
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Quintessential Clarinet - APO In Your Neighbourhood
21 Mar 2023Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra In Your Neighbourhood concert, featuring their principal clarinet player Jonathan Cohen. Audio
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The Sleeping Beauty: Taking opera to schools
21 Mar 2023The Sleeping Beauty is this year's Opera in Schools touring production. Bryan Crump speaks to performers Ridge Ponini and Alexandra Francis about Cook Islands opera and the role reversal used in this… Audio
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Music feature: Prince with Josh Ellery
21 Mar 2023For today's music feature we focus in on the career and legacy of Prince. Emerging in the late 1970s as a prodigy musician, he developed a reputation as a prolific virtuoso who wrote, produced… Audio
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Ruf Dug - the new sound of Manchester
20 Mar 2023A DJ's love for video games, twee samples and retro design brings the new Madchester. Audio
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The winner of the National Concerto Competition 2023 is: Yuzhang Wu
20 Mar 2023The 55th National Concerto Competition took place over the weekend, featuring three of New Zealand's top young pianists. The winner of the career-launching $10,000 first prize was Yuzhang Wu, a year… Audio
Coming up
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Worlds of Music for 19 March, 2023
19 Mar 2023Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie. Audio
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Getting It Together: Compilations Old and New
19 Mar 2023William Dart looks back nostalgically 30 years to a Flying Nun compilation of women's music, Shrew'd, and casts an eye over the latest selection of New Tracks from NZ On Air. Audio
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Carolyn Mills
19 Mar 2023NZSO principal harpist, Carolyn Mills, has a new solo album out - An Enchanted Land, celtic music arranged for the concert harp. This week she spoke to Bryan Crump about her latest work. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 March 2023
19 Mar 2023This week we’ve communion hymns, a psalm from the Scottish Psalter, and some hymns from writers who are proof that age is no barrier to trying something new. Audio
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RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
18 Mar 2023National Concerto Competition 2023 first place winner Yuzhang Wu.
Performed by Yuzhang Wu (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas Lilburn… Audio
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RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30
18 Mar 2023National Concerto Competition 2023 second place winner Henry Meng.
Performed by Henry Meng (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas Lilburn… Audio
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CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
18 Mar 2023National Concerto Competition 2023 third place winner Madeleine Xiao.
Performed by Madeleine Xiao (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas… Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 18 March 2023
18 Mar 2023On this week’s Nashville Babylon Mark has reggae from Burning Spear, swamp-blues courtesy of Tony Joe White, a live session track from Nadia Reid plus a soul classic from Smokey Robinson. Audio
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100 years of Wes and Dexter
18 Mar 2023Both Wes Montgomery and Dexter Gordon would have turned 100 recently. Nick celebrates their centenaries with a look at some of their highlights. Audio
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The Mixtape: Yaw Asumadu of Ozi Ozaa
18 Mar 2023Our guest on the Mixtape is Yaw Asumadu, a Ghanian musician who now reside in Aotearoa - He started 11 piece afro jazz band Ozi Ooza - Who are playing at the Arts Fest next weekend, he picks some… Audio
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More than a Score
18 Mar 2023Classics from Joe Lovano, Anita O'Day, and Miles Davis, and an original from Dunedin bandleader Bill Martin. Audio
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The Detail's Long Read: Immortal Bangers and Me
Immortal Bangers and Me by Shayne Carter: The legendary musician recounts his experience playing with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Audio
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